So the 6800k officially supports 2400mhz and 2133 mhz
Is there ANY tangeble benefit of moving up to 2600 or 3000?
32gb 16gbx2 @2400mhz = $119
Same ram @ 2133 is only $99
With 4x kits thats an $80 diff
I like this one
G.Skill has never let me down personally. MHZ on ram only has to do with high level stuff.
Edit: I will correct myself: 2400 is going to be the normal ceiling shortly. As tech advances there will be more demand, obviously, however that speed is going to help pipeline workloads as fast as possible. In my opinion DDR3 is all anyone will be needing for the next couple of years. But CAD, editing, Code, Rep. Surgery, even programming a 6 axis mill... Yeah higher Frequencies are going to be good. If you aren't going to be doing things that are at minimum taking 24 gigs of ram then don't even worry about higher than 2600 TBH.
Thats for
4x kits each
128gb 32gb x 4kits each kit =2x 16gb sticks
32gb 16gbx2 @2400mhz = $119 per kit
Same ram @ 2133 is only $99 per kit
I seem to have a fetish for wasting money on Ram just specifically because the motherboard will support it
I figured if it will support a hundred and twenty eight gigabytes
I might as well slot in 128 gigabytes
The only reason I currently have 32 gigabytes of RAM in my system now is because that was the maximum that that motherboard supported at the time
Thats a really big waste of money....
It is only a $200 waste of money as I would undoubtedly put in 64 gigabytes at the minimum that would be four out of the eight available slots
It really does depends on your use case. RAM bandwith is highly determind on what you are using it for.
Gaming not so much, unless you're using a APU.
as much as i hate to say it linus kind of hits the nail on the head here. Memory bandwidth is not close to saturated with todays standards atleast, and can handle more then is needed by OS'es, and the CPU in tandem. Albeit there are very specialized situations where bandwidth is worth alot, rather then latencies e.g. You're gaming on a APU(just an example) where an upgrade from 1866 to 2133 could mean as much as 10 fps.
Does your MOBO support quad channel memory, or is it dual channel only. That is really where the difference lies. compare it with the throughput of a raid setup with 2HDs vs. a 4HDs setup, it's sortta the same e.g. if so go for the 4 stick setup regardless unless you wanna "future proff" and upgrade again later then go for the 2 dim kit. Either way dont expect a massive boost difference in most use cases from a 2133 to a 2400Mhz upgrade except in very specialized cases.
Wait wait wait why are you building a high band box in the first place? If you're going to be stupid at least do 2X Xeons so its less stupid.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132822&ignorebbr=1
, this was the motherboard that I had my eyes on
I suppose I could use 64 gigabytes 8 gigabyte per stick around for a total of eight Styx so the Symmetry doesn't bother me and all of the slots are populated
But then I will forever know my board is not working to its potential and if I ever did upgrade I would have to waste all of that Ram to be replaced with the 16 gigabyte sticks
Those ones that you lined are $14 more expensive than the 2133 megahertz ones and only about $5 less expensive than the other 2400 set that I had already found
Ah, ok
Let Me comparison prices real quick
It looks like it would be a whole $20 cheaper than the ripjaws Five series of the same speed
It looks like the timing is and the speed are the same on both of those lines of chips so for $20 I wonder if the ripjaw V aesthetically pleasing me more
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Id say go for a 4 dim kit. Basically you would be quadrupiling the bandwidth of a single ram stick since it has quad channel support. BUT . actually forget that it has 8 frigging memory slots. go for 4 ram dims what ever, if you wanna upgrade later on, just make sure you buy 4 of the same speed later on. And mate that aint a bad MOBO, You'll enjoy that one for a while imo. Whats your use case? Gaming, server? porn? or just abit of everything?
Yup
I like how this motherboard has a ram cache option right in the Bios and that's mainly one of the big reasons I want all of that maximum amount of memory
If I get that set of the 2133 speed for $99 apiece the total cost will only be a solid 400 but then it'll kind of bug me that I would be below the standard speed as set by Intel on the CPU
I am like 50% if I'm spending this much already I want it to be a little bit future-proof so go for higher speed
I'm also 50% by God I'm already spending this much money I should just go with the lower speed and save 80 bucks
For instance on the computer that I currently have I'm Runnin 1866 megahertz because at that time 1600 megahertz was the standard and I wanted it just one step above that to make me feel like I'm a little bit ahead of the curve because you know and two months it would be that new standard speed
Honestly no I know I'm wasting a giant bit of money effort and time
but running 32 gigabytes on an x99 platform with only two sticks seems kind of dumb to me
But 128 gigabyte ramdisk baby....